important context is that this is a reference to a meme currently going around on tiktok.
Reading this makes me angry because of the things he so confidently gets wrong (always fun to have a dude clearly describe a phenomenon he is clearly experiencing as “mostly female”).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't QC an actual math prodigy, like was specifically well known for his mathematical ability? I would venture to say it's non-obvious that he is the one experiencing a phenomenon attributed to people bad at math.
Speaking as someone who's been on hormones for 4 years and considered myself trans for 5, this is probably the majority of detransitions (insofar as they can be considered "de"). Many of my friends have detransitioned without any regret for taking hormones (or continued hormones but decided to socially detransition, etc), and they usually remain fairly integrated with trans friends, having enough trans experience to "get it" and be an honorary trans no matter what. Like OP said, cultural integration is pretty sufficient to remain in trans communities even ...
This is a very good post and nearly all the replies here are illustrating the exact issue that Bob has, which is an inability to engage in the dialectic between these two perspectives without indignation as a defense against guilt.
Most people, including myself, are more Bob than Alice, but I've had a much easier time integrating my inner Alice and engaging with Alices I meet because I rarely, if ever, feel guilt about anything. Strong guilt increases the anticipated costs of positive self-change, and makes people strengthen defense mechanisms that boil dow...
Thanks for the review! I remember your last post.
I'm definitely a Camp 2 person, though I have several Camp 1 beliefs. Consciousness pretty obviously has to be physical, and it seems likely that it's evolved. I'm in a perpetual state of aporia trying to reconcile this with Camp 2 intuitions. Treating my own directly-apprehensible experience as fictional worldbuilding seems nonsensical, as any outside evidence is going to be running through that experience, and without a root of trust in my own experiences there's no way out of Cartesian doubt.
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This whole post you keep referencing "the Hegelian dialectic" as some sort of thing central to the Village, without ever stating what you think it is; could you elaborate?
I'm not an expert in this area by any means but I do not have the impression that the Village has even a plurality of Hegelians, let alone being centered around them, and the way you talk about the Hegelian dialectic does not seem to be remotely the same usage that you see with actual Hegelians. Honestly I expect actual Hegelians to be rather less upset about the River's differences from them, because, to my understanding, Hegel's whole thing is he believes in a sort of teleology of history that guarantees the victory of human freedom?